Album Review: Samiyam – ‘Sam Baker’s Album’

Album Review: Samiyam - 'Sam Baker's Album'

Score

Psychedelic minimalism and low-riding funk

[a]Samiyam[/a]’s debut, [b]‘Rap Beats Vol 1’[/b], was a churning compilation of instrumental hip-hop sketches that sounded like it was downloaded from a wired brain after severe Dilla burnout. Yet, like sometime collaborator [a]Flying Lotus[/a], [a]Samiyam[/a] has a knack for re-arranging a dissonant tangle of ideas into a psychedelic odyssey.